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Library survey

The FKCC Library would like to make computer and internet use more user friendly for residents of Monroe County. We have a survey to help us with this. It should take only 2-5 minutes of your time. The survey is available online from the Library’s home page at http://library.fkcc.edu or a print version is available in the Library.

Thank you for your help!

Library Staff

Learn how to locate, retrieve, and analyze information found on the Internet for your research needs. This one credit, elective is offered completely online using FKCC’s D2L online learning management system. The course begins Aug 24, 2009 and ends Dec 16, 2009.

LIS 2004 is offered each semester. If you have questions, stop by the library or contact Beverly at Library@fkcc.edu.

New MLA changes

MLA Handbook 7th Edition was published March 2009. The Library ordered copies and they will arrive shortly. For information on the changes, visit:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/.

United Nations Opens World Digital Library

Chronicle Wired Campus

April 21, 2009
In the latest and perhaps broadest effort to provide instant access to scholarly resources, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization today inaugurated its World Digital Library, a Web site that allows visitors to browse through a trove of artifacts spanning the history of civilization.
The site, four years in the making, brings together historical manuscripts along with secondary literature describing them—translated into seven different languages. The library includes scanned documents from 27 libraries in 19 countries so far, including a manuscript from ancient Japan that is believed to be the first novel ever. James H. Billington, the U.S. librarian of Congress, who heads the project, says all countries are welcome to contribute. The idea is to use Web technology to put all of mankind’s most precious artifacts in a single, shared repository. —Steve Kolowich

Resume Workshop

***FKCC Students***

Planning to attend the FKCC Spring Job Fair? Do you need help getting your resume ready?

Sign up for a Resume Workshop
Date: Wednesday
April 15, 2009
Time: 7 pm—8:15 pm

Need help with your research paper?

Are you in the midst of working on your major research paper or perhaps you need help getting started? Stop by the Library and ask for Beverly, call me at 809-3256, or send an email to beverly.westermeyer@fkcc.edu to make an appointment for individualized help on selecting and searching research databases.

Another great resource on campus is FKCC's Writing Center OASIS in Room C241 - open Monday through Thursday from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm. For more information on OASIS, contact Professor Silcox at 809-3241.

Free Rice

www.freerice.com
How can playing a web game help feed hungry people around the world and help you improve your vocabulary? Since 2007 the sponsors of this web site have donated enough rice to feed more than two million people through the UN World Food Program. For every answer you get right, 20 grains of rice are donated. It can become addictive watching the amounts of rice you donate grow and grow! And, according to their web site:

“Learning new vocabulary has tremendous benefits. It can help you:

Formulate your ideas better
Write better papers, emails and business letters
Speak more precisely and persuasively
Comprehend more of what you read
Read faster because you comprehend better
Get better grades in high school, college and graduate school
Score higher on tests like the SAT, GRE, LSAT and GMAT
Perform better at job interviews and conferences
Sell yourself, your services, and your products better
Be more effective and successful at your job
After you have done FreeRice for a while, you may notice an odd phenomenon. Words that you have never consciously used before will begin to pop into your head while you are speaking or writing. You will feel yourself using and knowing more words.”

So visit http://www.freerice.com/ and start learning and giving!

Happy New Year and Welcome to Spring Semester 2009 at FKCC!

We are starting to see some familiar faces in the library, along with new faces. If you are a new visitor to this research blog we hope you find it helpful and look forward to your suggestions for additional resources. Have a great semester!

Library staff

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my – well not that scary, but distinguishing among the style and citation guides can be a daunting task.

Do I use APA or MLA or Chicago? Or, what about CSE and Turabian? The best one to use is the one required by your professor! However, when you are out of school, you may be faced with choices. Generally speaking, the following guidelines hold true:

*APA is used by the social/behavioral sciences and educational field
*MLA is used by humanities and arts
*Chicago is used by authors of books, magazines, newspapers, and other non-scholarly publications
*Turabian is used by historians and more all-purpose format
*CSE is used by health/biomedical and biological sciences

If you are writing for a scholarly publication, adhere to the guidelines specified by the journal. These can usually be found in the section on instructions for authors.

APA and MLA specify guidelines for formatting your manuscripts and your citations. The Chicago and Turabian guides specify how to format your citations. It may seem overwhelming right now, but once you are established in your field of study, you generally adhere is one style.

The FKCC Library has style guides located at the Circulation Desk that you can use while you are in the library. There are also some excellent internet resources:

APA
MLA
Chicago
CSE
Turabian

For more help, see the links under Citing your sources on the left column of this page.